High School English Lesson on Evaluating Scientific Arguments
When you look at a report claiming a bridge design can hold 1,000 tons, you have to decide if that number actually means anything. High school English teachers know that students often take technical claims at face value, but the Evaluating Scientific Arguments lesson... read more
High School English Lesson on Analyzing Scientific Texts
When high school students pick up a piece of technical writing, they often try to skim it like a narrative story. They look for a hero or a conflict instead of tracing the logic of a mechanism. This causes them to miss the actual message, leaving them guessing about... read more
Teaching Strategic Geography in High School World History
When we teach World War II to our tenth graders, it is easy to get buried in dates and names. But our students really start to get it when they understand why things happened where they did. The Geography and Strategy in World War II lesson is a solid 45-minute... read moreTeaching Matrix Inverses and Properties in High School Algebra
Understanding how data structures function is a fundamental skill for algebra students. I remember watching a student trace a finger across a worksheet of grids last week, looking completely stuck. The problem was not about adding numbers anymore, but about adding... read more